I didn’t know that any 2028 Democratic presidential contender was trying to add “Bidenesque” to their list of qualities, particularly when that individual just happens to be emulating his worst qualities.
But, in that vein, I’m wondering if we’re going to find out that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a plagiarist with a penchant for lying and flubbing debates due to advanced senescence, thanks to the fact that the 2028 frontrunner has now basically committed a lower-key version of what I consider to be Biden’s trademark gaffe: accidental racial insensitivity.
This variety of gaffe reared its ugly head as far back as 2006, during the early portion of his abortive 2008 campaign (“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent — I’m not joking,” he said; a campaign spokeswoman laterclarified, effectively, that he was joking), but reached its apogee during 2020 whenhe infamously told“The Breakfast Club” that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Somewhere in between, though, this 2019 clip — which I thought would be campaign-ending for Biden, but turned out to only be a minor speed-bump on his way to being the last electable candidate standing — best encapsulated his attitude toward minorities:
Four years ago Joe Biden famously said that:
‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’pic.twitter.com/TLmJNWo8kn
— Yanky 🇺🇲 (@Yanky_Pollak)August 9, 2023
There you have it, in a single sentence: “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” Biden would go on to try and dig himself out of this whole, but the basic thought was there: There were poor kids, and then there were black kids. No joke. My word as a Biden.Where’s Jackie? Huh?
Now there’s Gov. Newsom. We have no concerns that Newsom is senile. He does seem to be stupid, although he’s blamed that recently on dyslexia. He’s even pretended to be offended when people call him “illiterate,” although he doesn’t seem to have bothered to learn to deploy the grift appropriately before trotting it out:
simply amazing. Newsom conflates being called “historically illiterate” with being called “illiterate” and then suggests the latter is a slur.pic.twitter.com/loocNTcpmn
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